This article is intended for cases when an error „database is
malformed" appears in P5. It is about checking and repairing
structural index errors. Note that only the index's structural
integrity is handled here, not its content or actuality.
CHECKING A...

In the Presstore log file, a messages similar to this one appears:
"nsd(63930,0xb0a8d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=2013265920) failed
(error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
unable t...

Customer was running P5 version 5.1.4 at the time.
Depending on the size of a backup, P5 would sometimes generate
enormous temporary lookup files - sometimes several GB in size. That,
in turn, could cause a server's root file system to fill up
temporari...

PresSTORE uses by default the port address 8000 to offer its service
over the network.
It is possible to change this port during installation. Please do not
use system reserved ports (i.e. port numbers below 1024) for PresSTORE
because these are often ...

PLEASE NOTE: THE PROCEDURES DESCRIBED HERE ONLY WORK IN P4 AND
EARLIER. THEY DO NOT WORK IN P5 DUE TO THE SWITCH TO A DIFFERENT
DATABASE ENGINE!
1. Using the P4 GUI
To perform a simple quick-check of index consistency and optionally
schedule index rec...

Starting with P5 version 5.5, client to client synchronize plans are
supported.
When a sync job is defined to transfer data from one P5 client to
another, i.e. not to/from the P5 server (localhost) itself, P5
attempts to setup a direct connection from o...

Q: Customer received the above error message during a backup.
A: Good explanation of a SCSI Bus Reset on this web site:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6318/6318pro_022.html [1]
Links:
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[1] http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6318/631...

The EPIPE error is a communications error.
http://www.wlug.org.nz/EPIPE [1]
Here's another description of this type of error:
"This is very likely a broken network connection. That is to say the
network connection was broken. You should check your /...

Link to a discussion thread on how to mount a NAS on bootup using
the fstab file on a Mac
http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/14201-howto-automount-afpsmb-shares-using-autofs/
[1]
fstab network attached storage network volume
Links:
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An auto-update from, say, version 3.x to 4.x would not work because
the two machines wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. If
the server and the client are running different versions of Presstore
4.x that are deemed compatible, then auto-upd...

Customer was running full backups once a week during the weekend and
daily incremental backups during the week. However, during the first
incremental backup of the week, it looked as if Presstore was backing
up everything. We turned on debug logging an...

The local administrator account in Windows 2008 is hidden. In case
you're having problems using Presstore on a Windows 2008 machine with
Active Directory domain accounts, try to enable the Local
Administrator account and use that one instead. Please refer...

Advanced control lists (ACL) allow defining file permissions beyond
the older posix access rights standard. When synchronizing files on
Macs, the ACLs are transferred in the same way as all other file
attributes. But in order for the ACLs to be created...

Archiware P5 will not run in parallel with other backup software
installed on the same server. Any such setup ist unsupported.
The reason being that other backup software may lock the tape
device(s), which would prevent Archiware P5 from controlling tho...

When saving data to the cloud with Backup or Archive, P5 maintains the
cloud access through disk volumes in a virtual disk library.
Disk volumes in P5 as listed in the P5 volume manager are represented
on disk as a folder in the virtual disk library.
Th...

When using include filters in Synchronize plans, it may appear that
files are copied with each sync job, even if these were not changed
The reason for behavior this is somewhat hidden:
Filters are applied on source and target in order to allow "other"...

As of 3.2.2, PresSTORE includes a simple disk speed test utility. This
utility can be used to check the data-transfer speed to and from a
given hard disk drive.
The utility performs sequential read and write tests on the given
file, thus not only testing ...

As of 2.3.10, PresSTORE includes a simple, yet powerful network test
utility. This utility can be used to check the data transfer speed
between the PresSTORE server and any of it's clients (see Limitations
below).
The utility performs a pure network test...

Q: Customer wanted to perform a full backup during the weekend and
incremental backups during the week. Recycle policy was set to 6 days.
Volumes had expired but were not being recycled automatically. Why?
A: The problem was that the customer had cr...

We are often asked which criteria is used in PresSTORE to decide whether a file must be saved again PresSTORE will resave a file if:
It is modified (it's modification time changed since the last run)
It's inode is modified (user/group changed, exten...